Open Access Week – continuing on the journey | OUPblog

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-21

Summary:

" ... Of course, our OA caravan has been dragging itself slowly across the plains of academia for many years. But since 2012, the UK has been travelling at breakneck speed, aided by the rocket-boosting Finch Report. We have spent the last three years establishing a proper framework for the UK, moving us all forward in a decisive direction, with a new raft of policy requirements setting the scene. Funders, publishers, universities, and others have been working flat-out to avoid any nasty bumps and make this as smooth a ride as possible. Many people have told me that the most significant milestone passed since the Finch Report was the announcement last year that all articles and conference papers submitted to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise would be subject to an OA eligibility test. That move has been described as a game-changer because it has raised the stakes considerably. The REF matters a great deal to UK research, and universities must now deliver OA for the bulk of papers their academics produce or face difficulties in getting them assessed for future funding. This has led to a flurry of activity within UK universities to deliver on these requirements. Universities have spent the last 18 months formulating or updating their institutional OA policies, educating their researchers, putting in place processes, and updating their technology. Software developers and vendors, as well as players like Jisc and Sherpa, have been hard at work developing new technical solutions to support funders’ policies. And publishers and learned societies have burst into life with new activities and initiatives to support their authors ..."

Link:

http://blog.oup.com/2015/10/open-access-week-continuing-journey/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.oa_week

Date tagged:

10/21/2015, 21:23

Date published:

10/21/2015, 17:22